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Track Listings
| 1. Teenage Warning |
| 2. Student Power |
| 3. The Young Ones |
| 4. Never Again |
| 5. We Are The People |
| 6. Liddle Towers |
| 7. I'm An Upstart |
| 8. Small Town Small Mind |
| 9. Youth Leader |
| 10. Do Anything |
| 11. Let's Speed |
| 12. Leave Me Alone |
| 13. BONUS TRACKS The Murder Of Liddle Towers (Single Version) |
| 14. Police Oppression (Single Version) |
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- The debut LP from the legendary Angelic Upstarts and one that hit No.25 in the UK album charts - Includes the hit singles Teenage Warning (No.29), I m An Upstart (No.31) plus the Independent Chart Top 30 smash The Murder Of Liddle Towers - Detailed liner notes, lyrics to all the songs, pictures of all relevant singles and original LP artwork are all a feature of this essential Oi! / Punk classic
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Having read John Robb's excellent book Punk Rock: An oral history I have been listening to a lot of old punk stuff and the fires have been well and truly blazing since. Rather surprisingly one of my favourite albums from this period has become the Angelic Upstarts Teenage Warning . Why surprising then ? ...Well it came as a surprise to me because I just wasn't expecting them to be a band i would especially like ( due to their skinhead Oi connotations) let alone love all over again.
In fact The Upstarts barely registered with me at the time of the release of Teenage Warning in 1979 when the punk explosion was dissipating yet it is the best discovery I have made since delving into the punk archives. Of course I was aware of the excellent aggravated single "I'm An Upstart" and the title track rang a few bells....very loudly... with it's terrace chant vocal backing but the rest...well it's like hearing a new release.
Teenage Warning isn't a classic album by any means. It's very limited in what it does ( but then again so was most punk) and the song-writing isn't always the best but somehow I find even this lack of craft endearing ,something which would probably make them puke but then how elementally punk is that.
The aforementioned tracks are the strongest but I also like "Never Again " , "The Murder Of Liddle Towers" and "Police Oppression " but really though pretty much the album whole is a blast ...a one dimensional one but a blast none the less. Mensi sings with goggle eyed fervour and it's always great to hear a band who sound genuinely angry . Why aren't there any bands like this around now? ( If there are and I have missed them please educate me) The world is ( arguably ) more up the spout now then it was then so there is still plenty to be irate about. Maybe Mensi was right...... maybe no one was listening .
In fact The Upstarts barely registered with me at the time of the release of Teenage Warning in 1979 when the punk explosion was dissipating yet it is the best discovery I have made since delving into the punk archives. Of course I was aware of the excellent aggravated single "I'm An Upstart" and the title track rang a few bells....very loudly... with it's terrace chant vocal backing but the rest...well it's like hearing a new release.
Teenage Warning isn't a classic album by any means. It's very limited in what it does ( but then again so was most punk) and the song-writing isn't always the best but somehow I find even this lack of craft endearing ,something which would probably make them puke but then how elementally punk is that.
The aforementioned tracks are the strongest but I also like "Never Again " , "The Murder Of Liddle Towers" and "Police Oppression " but really though pretty much the album whole is a blast ...a one dimensional one but a blast none the less. Mensi sings with goggle eyed fervour and it's always great to hear a band who sound genuinely angry . Why aren't there any bands like this around now? ( If there are and I have missed them please educate me) The world is ( arguably ) more up the spout now then it was then so there is still plenty to be irate about. Maybe Mensi was right...... maybe no one was listening .
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Recieved opinion has it that this album was patchy and disappointing and that the band promised more, and while i won't kid you it's a masterpiece it certainly has it's share of punk classics, particularly the title track, I'm An Upstart and Never Again.When the punk retrospectives are rolling this band is usually a footnote at best but for me they were the real deal; real anger suffused with a pop sensibility.At their best they rank with the greats of that era and should not be dismissed as sub-Sham headbangers or whatever nonsense the art school meeja crowd will tell you to fit their self serving agenda today.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a true felt insight of the punk era in the North East of England.Police brutality,harassment,boredom and student life all rolled into one. Each song has real life insperation behind it.
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